I'm as prone to
navel-gazing as anyone else or maybe more so since I've also worked in journalism, another profession whose practitioners are constantly obsessing over their collective value.
'MLS strongly preferred'
Over the weekend, Mr Cameron urged Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to come together behind the coalition and not to descend into "division and
navel-gazing".
We're committed to the coalition
"But they will not tolerate division and
navel-gazing. They know that the problems are big and they do not want to see politicians fall out in the process of dealing with them.
David Cameron pleads for coalition unity
A more-than-capable pop arranger, Ramos-Nishita is at his best mixing elements of
navel-gazing rock and earnest folk with smart-assed pop punk edges.
Money Mark: Brand New by Tomorrow (Brushfire Records)
Harvey Pekar is best known for his
navel-gazing comic series, American Splendor, in which he enlists celebrated artists to illustrate tales of his humdrum life in Cleveland.
Macedonia
Save us from Nilson's self-indulgent
navel-gazing. Instead get involved in your parish or community service club to help the poor, and you'll find all the black, Latino, and other friends you could want.
White guilt
Over the last couple of decades, parishes and dioceses all across the country have embarked on various
navel-gazing, brain-storming, and workshopping exercises to deal with the ubiquitous "priest shortage." Invariably you hear that the laity must "get more involved" (I'm not sure how, since in some parishes we're doing everything except consecrating hosts.)
Foreign undesirables
I am sure I can't be alone in despairing of the usual earnest,
navel-gazing, humourless content of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand.
Touch of humour much appreciated
He journeys ever inward in the manner of an amateur scientist searching for some microcosmic fundamental: At the Whitney,
navel-gazing self-portraits of one kind or another proliferate, and there is a sense that much of the work was embarked on primarily for its maker's own amusement (admittedly a trait common to much art but arguably better hidden in most).
Tim Hawkinson: Whitney Museum of American Art
In the context of the AR, Preview was originally an annual and slightly solemn,
navel-gazing fixture of the magazine that ran from 1954 until 1969.
On the radar: antennae twitching, the AR surveys the future of architecture and finds cause for optimism
In the broadest sense, blogs can range from someone's
navel-gazing musings about intimate personal details to literary, political and social commentary on a variety of events and subjects.
Adventures in the Blogosphere: as Internet journals come into their own, African American voices are rising above the noise
"The diligence and intelligence of its people" garnered 25 percent of the vote while "the humanistic and righteous principles of its people" came in with a
navel-gazing 17 percent.
Mirror, mirror on the wall
After the euphoric headlines, capitalist triumphalism speedily gave way to
navel-gazing. The victory parade has since been marred by anti-capitalist protests and vague talk of a "third way," or socially responsible capitalism.
Enterprise goes social. (Market Horizons)
Media
navel-gazing is hardly new, With so many journalists scurrying about the nation's capital, they naturally get together on occasion to consider how important they are.
Misunderestimating the public: Press gatekeepers may fret about information, but the average Joe is swimming in it
* And the most self-indulgently
navel-gazing show of them all is, of course, 42nd Street itself, which has nothing--nothing--on its mind beyond dazzling audiences with extravagantly showy musical numbers.
A Season of Self-Regard